Chongming Xianzong

Chapter 120: A Small Test
"I didn't expect that someone who knows about military affairs would suddenly appear. That pupil technique is quite interesting, at least it is of the upper grade of Hong level." Sima Fei was somewhat surprised to see the actions of the Pingrong County troops under the general's tent. The fat and unprepossessing county lieutenant made him look at him with more respect.

On the other hand, he was somewhat dissatisfied with the performance of the Xu family generals: "The Xu family of Dai County is at least a well-known family in the capital. The Earl of Nan'an personally sent a letter to ask for someone. How could they have the nerve to send such a violent person?"

Sima Gunjia said calmly, "What Sima said is wrong. Even those famous families who are married to the royal family, their legitimate children are still sent to the Yuanying Sect as usual." Sima Gunjia paused at this point and pointed at the back of General Xu and said leisurely, "Only those illegitimate children like them are willing to be sent here to be idle chess pieces."

Fei Sima was silent for a while after hearing this, and then he sighed: "The state affairs are difficult."

He immediately shook his head, put aside some messy thoughts, and thought to himself: "Let's fight well in this battle. No matter what the Xu family is like, at least the vanguard won for a while, which will greatly boost morale, which is also a good thing."

"Push forward!" Fei Sima waved his brass hand halberd. One advantage of this formal battle is that you don't have to pay too much attention to the opponent's cunning tricks, just rush forward.

Several hundred-man formations began to move under the waving of the brass hand halberds, and the steaming spiritual energy evaporated, making the red-collared falcon that was still flying in the clouds a little drunk.

The pursuit by General Xu did not last too long. He and his men advanced too far and too fast, and the team following behind them had long been disconnected and did not even have a decent formation.

As General Xu came up with his scattered formation, two teams of a hundred people from the Five Phases Sect who had been prepared rushed to meet them. A wave of talismans and magic weapons flew from both sides, and more than ten of the scattered cultivators who followed General Xu to the front were killed in an instant.

When the screams in the field are loud enough, they can quickly cool down a group of heated brains.

General Xu felt uneasy. After all, he was the descendant of a military family and knew that he was being reckless.

Just when he was about to gather his troops and reorganize them backwards before charging forward, he saw a dozen disciples of the Five Phase Sect in the late stage of Qi training rushing out from the opposite formation and rushing towards the team of General Xu that had not yet formed.

The first few disciples made a magic gesture and threw several sky thunder balls which exploded in the formation one after another, causing a mess of casualties in the formation.

The deafening thunder and the corpses of their comrades frightened the troops led by General Xu so much that they immediately scattered like birds and beasts. The morale boosted by the spirit stones was easily shattered by the heavenly thunder.

General Xu's face was filled with reluctance, and he used three or two powerful Taoist techniques to kill a disciple of the Five Phases Sect who was chasing in the front. Then he put on a gloomy face and retreated along with his own frightened army.

Large groups of crying defeated soldiers fled back from the slowly advancing army formation in Pingrong County, making Xu Bai, who was originally only angry but not panicked, a little frightened.

When he passed by the Pingrong County army formation on his retreat, he did not dare to stay behind to organize the troops and retreated directly to the Zhouting formation.

Seeing this, the head of the Kang family was furious, but he knew that he must not make a mess at this time. If the formation was scattered and the opponent's sharp soldiers attacked, the opponent would kill them one by one without any effort.

By then, Kang Dabao might not be so lucky to return alive.

Even if he returned alive, the crime of losing the battle formation could be a serious or minor one, but the morale of the army was damaged by the disorderly charge, and it was hard to say whether Fei Sima, who would certainly be displeased, would chop off his head.

He is just a small county lieutenant in the middle stage of Qi training. In the eyes of those big shots, he is not worth a few spirit stones.

Therefore, Master Kang had no choice but to mobilize the Pingrong County army to come up and block the front force of a dozen or so disciples of the Five Phases Sect.

As soon as the formation flag changed, the monks of Yihuo and Wuhuo each cast several layers of defensive talismans before they rushed towards the pursuers with pale faces.

The three fire monks A, C and D were in the back formation, releasing their magic weapons. The golden light in the eyes of Master Kang was also aimed at a skilled fighter in immortal clothes and fired twice.

The talismans and magic weapons used by the first Luo family members who met the enemy were of low quality. The spiritual shields of several people were broken by the opponent's magic weapons, and they died on the spot.

But the monks from the Five Phases Sect had no time to pursue the victory. They apparently had not expected that there could still be some resistance among the defeated vanguard of the Zhou Ting side.

It is impossible to make up for the mistakes that have been made by just using the three words "unexpected".

The Wuxiang Sect disciples who were equally reckless soon paid the price for their mistakes. Faced with the overwhelming magical weapons from the Pingrong County army formation that were smashing down on them, they could only hastily put on defensive measures to protect themselves.

The cultivation skills and magical weapons of these disciples carefully selected from the Five Phases Sect are indeed far superior to the motley crowd brought by Kang Dabao.

The attack by Pingrong County was not very effective. Among the dozen or so people on the opposite side, only two or three were slow and suffered losses. They were hit by magic weapons and fell from mid-air on the spot. They were picked up by the monks of the front team of Pingrong County and brought back into the formation and killed with one sword.

However, the Pingrong County team is not entirely mediocre.

As soon as the two sides engaged in battle, two golden lights shot from the Pingrong County formation directly penetrated a Five Phase Sect disciple's proud top-grade defensive magic weapon, almost killing this cultivator who was considered a promising foundation cultivator by his elders.
As a result, the Five Phases Sect monks who were pursuing them suffered a great loss, and their originally aggressive offensive was also slowed down.

The Luo family members in the front row were all dead or injured, and those who were still alive were gathered in the back row.

Now Wuhuo was pushed to the front row of the Pingrong County army. Those brought here by Sect Leader Kang were all fugitives who were used to fighting. After seeing the changes in the Five Phase Sect monks, how could they miss such a good opportunity?

Regardless of whether they could match their opponents or not, they all looked for their opponents with red eyes and heavy breathing to tangle with them. They knew clearly that as long as they could hold on until the team behind them came forward, the entangled opponents would have no choice but to wait for death.

"Ah!" Dan Xia and Han Lu fought against a cultivator at the eighth level of Qi training for only half the time of a pack of cigarettes before they were hit by the opponent's falling rocks technique.

This plain-looking female cultivator just looked at her husband affectionately before she died, without even having time to say a last word.

Han Lu had tears in her eyes. They had been married for decades, so how could she not be sad?

Seeing the tip of the small black tower in his hand flashing with mysterious light, the flying fork of the monk opposite was restrained and could not move.

The monk was not panicked. He took out a colorful banner and waved it violently. There seemed to be a deafening thunder sound and a silver lightning struck over.

Han Lu was horrified when she saw this, but she was decisive. She abandoned the black tower and fled. The thunder struck the empty space, causing a large piece of hard soil to pop out of the compacted ground.

Before Han Lu could breathe a sigh of relief, several golden spear talismans came at him from the side, piercing him all the way through. Han Lu lost his strength in pain. He opened his mouth, and large streams of blood with bubbles flowed out of his mouth, but he could not make a sound.

At this time, the scarred old cultivator from the Wuxiang Sect who had fallen to the ground threw out a handful of talismans. Han Lu had no way to dodge them and was smashed into a pulp by various spells.

The old cultivator laughed miserably, spat out a mouthful of black blood, and then closed his eyes and fainted.

The elder brother of the two evil spirits of the Feng family was hit by a fire snake curse from the enemy cultivator and fainted immediately. His younger brother, with tears in his eyes, desperately snatched him back from the enemy and escaped back to the formation.

The Shao brothers and sisters were so frightened that they could only retreat back to the front of the formation to protect themselves. Even Shao Meng's ancient coin, which looked very attractive, was broken into half.

Shao Wei only pulled his sister, allowing Shao Meng to narrowly avoid the sharp blade of a Wuxiang Sect disciple. In the blink of an eye, a flying golden spear pierced his forearm and he dared not move forward anymore.

Kang Dabao was not angry when he saw these desperate men were defeated. He knew that these desperate men had already given him a lot of face, and fighting to this extent could be considered as doing their utmost.

The opponents were all disciples of the Wuxiang Sect, a foundation-building sect. Even though there were no outstanding people of the same level like Ge Yangfeng and Tie Xishui charging into the formation, they were definitely not as easy to bully as those independent cultivators in the market who were exploited by them. Even desperate people like Han Lu and his wife were killed by the enemy in an instant.

Even he himself was hit by a flying fork magic weapon, and the flames burned his left face, leaving skin and flesh exposed, looking somewhat terrifying.

But now that the front-line offensive led by the desperate has stopped, the motley crowd in the formation will have to face the enemy head-on.

Except for Jiahuo, who was composed of disciples of the Grass Witch Sect, whose cultivation and fighting experience were all comparable, the other disciples were much less skilled in battle, not to mention that the disciples of these small families were also inferior in cultivation to the disciples of the Five Phase Sect.

As soon as the battle started, the casualties among the Pingrong County army began to increase gradually. The pitiful prestige of Master Kang was not enough to suppress them, and unrest gradually broke out in the army.

"Anyone who disrupts the formation will die!" The young monk from the fellow cultivator association who was appointed by Kang Dabao to bear the flag turned pale with fright, but he was not completely frightened. At this moment, he was waving the flag wildly and giving orders.

A disciple from the Grass Witch Sect in Jiahuo saw that a fellow disciple next to him was unable to defend himself and was tricked by an enemy outside the formation who used ice cone magic to trick his defensive weapon and pierced his head.

He was so frightened that his face turned pale and he couldn't help but stop following the team.

Kang Dabao's face darkened upon seeing this. He took out an iron ruler and hit him hard on the back. The pain made him gasp for air and cold sweat broke out as his skin and flesh were torn.

But the pain now made his mind clear, and he quickly walked to catch up with the team and fill the gap.

Fortunately, the Jiahuo formed by the Grass Witch Cult was the strongest in overall strength and was the first to block the disciples of the Five Phases Sect. A female cultivator from the Five Phases Sect, who was using a colorful satin magic weapon, came to the front of the Pingrong County Township Army and knocked away several low-grade magic weapons with just a few moves. She stretched out five slender and beautiful fingers and probed into the heart chamber of the deacon named Cai from the Hemu Dao.

The latter's face instantly showed fear, and he hurriedly moved a shield magic weapon in front of him.

But the fingertips of the female cultivator suddenly glowed white, and the shield magic weapon just made an unpleasant and harsh sound like claws scratching a blackboard, and the next second, five tiny holes were pierced through it like cardboard.

Fingers as white as green onions suddenly appeared and were about to touch the collar of the Hemu Dao disciple's robes.

“Whoosh, puff, puff.”

A beam of black light flashed from the back formation. The female cultivator endured the pain and was very decisive. She spit out a yellow light to hit the wound to stop the bleeding. She didn't even look at the four fingers that fell to the ground. She turned around and left.

Ignoring the thanks from Deacon Cai, Kang Dabao did not chase the enemy. He put away his short blade magic weapon and simply changed the flag in his hand.

The team's forward pace suddenly stopped, the originally messy formation became straightened, and the army formation regained some serious and orderly appearance.

However, this little noise could not scare the elite disciples of Wuxiang Sect. There were more people who could break the formation with their personal abilities than just General Xu sent by the provincial court.

Eight or nine cultivators suddenly appeared from the opposite side, imitating the actions of General Xu and relying on their powerful personal strength, they also smashed directly into the formation.

Three or four of them were blasted into pieces by countless magical weapons and talismans on the spot, but the rest successfully broke into the middle of the Pingrong County military formation, disrupting the formation that could barely be considered tight.

"Stop making a fuss!" Kang Dabao was so frightened that he shouted repeatedly, but it was of little use.

The degree of "loyalty to the emperor and the country" of these poor people who were chosen by various families to die is quite limited. Under the current circumstances, the formation has not collapsed on the spot, which can be regarded as the effectiveness of the one-month military formation training of Master Kang!
At this time, the dozen or so disciples of Wuxiang Sect who were still alive were working together inside and outside the Pingrong County formation.

The four or five Five Phases Sect members who broke into the army formation finally disrupted the formation of the Pingrong County side. Relying on their outstanding individual strength to support each other, the monks in the formation, which outnumbered them by far, found it difficult to eliminate them all at once.

This chaotic and loose formation alone could not stop the siege of a dozen late-stage cultivators from the Wuxiang Sect.

Although they were small in number, they had surrounded the Pingrong County army from all sides and used their magic powers and magic weapons without hesitation.

Under such a fierce attack, a thin layer of the outer layer of the military formation was shaved off.

Apart from Kang Dabao and the deacon surnamed Cai, there are almost no other outstanding figures in Pingrong County who can pose a threat to the disciples of the Five Phases Sect.

The increasingly brutal fighting put the Pingrong County team, which had been forcibly put together, into a desperate situation, and it was only a matter of time before it fell apart.

Unfortunately, the Wuxiang Sect also lacked time.

The leading disciple of the Five Phases Sect used the Stone-Falling Technique to smash two disciples of the same sect who were standing next to each other into a pulp, making it difficult to tell which was which. Before they could feel much joy in their hearts, they saw the next moment that the reinforcements from the state court had formed a battle formation and were rushing over.

He glanced at his fellow disciples who were still trapped in the Pingrong County army formation. His face kept switching between pale and blue. In the end, he could only squeeze out one word from between his teeth: "Retreat!"

The disciples of the Five Phases Sect, who originally had the upper hand, all showed signs of unwillingness. If there was enough time, this weak group of people would definitely be wiped out by them.

But everyone obviously knew how powerful they were. With just the number of people they had, they could never deal with the large group of people sent by the provincial court.

So after a moment of silence, they all put away their magic weapons, leaving only the leading disciple behind.

At this time, the face of the leading disciple was not looking good. He threw three Heavenly Thunder Balls viciously. Two of them hit the people who were beating up the trapped disciples of the Five Phases Sect, and one hit the direction of the Great Master Kang who left a deep impression on him. Then he ran towards the formation of the Five Phases Sect without looking back.

Those who were hit by the Heavenly Thunder were immediately in bad luck. Before being hit, they might not have even seen what the Heavenly Thunder looked like.

It would be difficult to withstand an attack that was powerful enough to match that of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, not to mention that it was difficult to find a single intact defensive weapon among the defensive magic weapons raised by the Pingrong County army to meet the enemy.

After the violent explosion, large pieces of magic weapon fragments mixed with countless pieces of flesh and bones flew out from the Pingrong County army formation.

Even a disciple of the Five Phases Sect was entangled too tightly by his opponent and failed to avoid the aftermath of the Heavenly Thunder Blast. His lower body was shattered and it seemed that he would hardly survive.

At this time, those in the Pingrong County army who still had the courage to besiege the disciples of the Five Phases Sect could be considered the absolute backbone.

The large number of casualties caused the Pingrong County military formation to explode.

Although the only surviving disciple of the Five Phases Sect in the formation was seriously injured at this time, he saw that the way out that was originally blocked was now open, so he forced himself to use his spiritual power and rushed out.

He was seriously injured and naturally slowed down, and was soon caught up by a short blade and easily cut into two pieces at the tailbone.

The owner of the short blade was naturally the head of the Kang clan who had been hit by the Heavenly Thunder, and he was not feeling well at the moment.

The incoming Heavenly Thunder directly shattered Kang Dabao's Shutu Qingyuan Shield and Silver Mace magic weapons. The middle-grade robes that he had carefully selected from many storage bags and put on were also burned to ashes by the flames caused by the Heavenly Thunder. The whole person was affected by the aftermath of the Heavenly Thunder explosion and was directly blown away.

Not only was a large area of ​​skin and flesh burned, but also countless bones were broken. Even the internal organs in the abdomen were damaged, and the fishy-sweet taste in the mouth lingered for a long time.

If it weren't for the fact that Master Kang Da had tried his best to avoid the center of the Tianleizi explosion by flying for his life, and if there was not a disciple of the Grass Witch Cult nearby who was able to simultaneously offer four or five first-grade top-grade Vajra Talismans to help contain the aftermath of the Tianleizi explosion, the life-saving Hunyuan Gourd around Kang Dabao's waist would have definitely been moved.

The Grass Witch Sect disciple was not so lucky. He and three or four other monks who were close to Kang Dabao were all blown into pieces.

"Don't run! Line up! Don't run! There will be no reward if you run! Quickly line up!" Master Kang didn't care about feeling the joy of surviving the calamity. He suppressed the severe pain all over his body, still used his spiritual power, and shouted loudly.

At this time, the fellow practitioner who had just held the flag with him had disappeared, and it was hard to tell whether he was dead or alive.

After hearing Kang Dabao's shouting, the monks who had not been completely frightened finally calmed down a little. They looked at the disciples of the Five Phases Sect who had already retreated and the Zhouting formation that was getting closer and closer.

As long as they can see these two places clearly, the monks who are still in the formation, if they still have some ability in their brains, will know that it is not worthwhile to run away at this time.

Even the two evil spirits of the Feng family and the brothers and sisters of the Shao family gathered back to the side of the head of the Kang family, dragging their injured bodies, looking loyal and devoted to protecting their master.

The stupid monks were a minority after all. After a short while, there were already eleven or twelve monks surrounding Kang Dabao. Judging from this, among those who were still alive, there were probably not many who escaped.

At this moment, everyone in the formation was injured, but they could barely form a defensive circle.

It only took a short while for the reinforcements to arrive, but Master Kang was already covered in cold sweat, feeling that he was finally alive.

Just now, he faced the dozen elite disciples of Wuxiang Sect. It was hard to say whether he could win against one of them on a normal day, let alone against a group of them. He was really lucky to be able to save his life.

When fighting against the enemy, not only can one not be careless at all, but one must also pay attention to maintaining one's own formation at all times, which is very mentally exhausting.

Fei Sima, who was leading the main formation to meet the enemy, saw the circular formation composed of a group of monks covered in blood, and a very satisfied expression appeared on his face.

He walked up to Kang Dabao and said to him in a condescending manner, "Well done. Go to the central army first and rest your strength. There is still a lot of fighting to do."

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